? 2025 climate investor survey results. Top 100 global cleantech company list. $3.5B in solar and storage projects. (#185)
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? 2025 climate investor survey results. Top 100 global cleantech company list. $3.5B in solar and storage projects. (#185)

Chris Wedding ? Chris Wedding ?

Chris Wedding ?

?? I help climate CEOs grow (private peer groups & coaching) ?? I post on startups, finance, climate change ?? Investor, Founder, Professor, Coach, Podcaster, Newsletter Writer, "Monk"

发布日期: 2025年3月7日
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Welcome to my newsletter from Entrepreneurs for Impact (EFI).

I share lessons learned from working with 300 climate tech CEOs and investors—plus 25 years of meditation practice—to help people fight climate change profitably and maybe even lead a happier life.

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Four topics:

  1. 2025 Climate Investor Survey results
  2. Real estate for $3.5B in solar and storage projects
  3. The Global Cleantech 100 List for 2025
  4. Charles Darwin was a “good-for-nothing”

1.

2025 Climate Investor Survey Results

Our friends at CREO just released a survey of 127 climate fund managers (managing roughly $1 trillion) about trends in climate private capital markets.

Here are four snippets.

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Which subsectors interest them most?

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How much of their funds are deployed already?

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How do they measure impact?

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How is their pace of capital deployment changing this year vs. the prior year?

?? So what?

Get the report.

You’ll find lots more great intel on the following:

  • Valuation trends
  • Bridge rounds
  • Co-investors
  • Reasons for not investing
  • Exit environments

Jason Scott , Régine Clément , Jonathan Mi , Daniel Matross

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2.

Real estate for $3.5B in solar and storage projects

Laura Pagliarulo , Co-founder and CEO of SolaREIT? , was my guest on a recent Entrepreneurs for Impact podcast.

SolaREIT provides flexible capital solutions for solar and battery energy storage real estate. By partnering with developers and landowners, they facilitate the monetization of land assets through land purchases, lease prepayments, and land loans.

Their streamlined approach and competitive pricing have enabled capital deployment for projects across 19 states, contributing to over $3.5 billion in solar and battery storage developments.

Laura brings over 20 years of experience in the renewable energy sector. Previously, she served as Managing Director at CleanChoice Energy, plus leadership roles at SunEdison and WGL Energy.

We're also excited to have Laura as an EFI Climate CEO Fellow in our CEO peer group community at Entrepreneurs for Impact.

Here are some topics from our conversation:

  • How to optimize capital efficiency in solar and battery storage projects by leveraging innovative land acquisition strategies
  • How they decide to structure their investment based on landowner and project owner perspectives
  • Why the solar and battery storage industry demonstrates resilience and adaptability amidst legislative changes and market fluctuations
  • When to consider long-term commitments within a company to fully understand its operations and foster personal growth
  • How to maintain health and focus through personal habits such as outdoor exercise, mindful presence, and balanced technology use

?? So what?

Listen to the podcast and share your thoughts on my LinkedIn post.

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3.

The Global Cleantech 100 List for 2025

Check out the Cleantech Group’s 2025 list of noteworthy companies tackling climate change and other environmental challenges.

Fun facts?

  • These companies have collectively raised $9B since their founding.
  • The average capital raise per company last year was $19M.
  • The biggest capital raise last year was for Koloma, the geologic hydrogen startup: $245M led by Khosla Ventures , with co-investors such as Amazon's climate fund and United's VC arm.

Shoutouts to some of our EFI podcast guests who made the list:

?? So what?

Use the list to find that next job, see which subsectors are hot, or feel like a failure for not making the list.

(Just kidding. Please don’t do that last one. These lists are cool but far from perfect.)

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4.

Charles Darwin was a “good-for-nothing”

I recently heard this quote from the white-bearded man of Galapagos lore:

  • “Ignorance more frequently [gives rise to] confidence than does knowledge.”

That is, be wary of the source of excess confidence. It might not be merited.

This got me curious about his other quotes, and I found these jewels:

  • "There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.”
  • "The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man."
  • "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."

?? So what?

These go far beyond “only the fittest survive” stuff.

But here’s another piece of trivia: As a youth, his own father considered him a “wastrel,” or a good-for-nothing person.

So, if you’ve got haters in your life — I think we all do — consider their doubts to be an abundant source of hydrogen isotopes for your personal fusion reactor, propelling you through brick walls and glass ceilings.

(If you think that’s too cheesy, I have an infinite supply of dad jokes. Don’t tempt me.)

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That’s all, y’all.

Make it a great week. It’s usually a choice.

~ Chris

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